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Account of a Book intitled 'Premier Recueil de Lecons de Mathematique ...'

Reference number: RBO/13/64

Date: 1728

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Volume contains eight lectures read in the Royal College at Paris founded by Francis I in 1530
Concerning whole numbers, fractions, algebra, polynomials, calculus of powers by their exponents
Read to the Royal Society on 7 November 1728

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RBO/13/64
Earliest possible date
1728
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Account of a Book intitled 'Premier Recueil de Lecons de Mathematique ...', 1728, RBO/13/64, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_13_64/account-of-a-book-intitled-premier-recueil-de-lecons-de-mathematique, accessed on 17 April 2025

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